War and punishment Putin, Zelensky, and the path to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
"In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukr...
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New York, NY :
Scribner,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Seven tales of colonial oppression in Ukraine. The myth of unity : how Bohdan Khmelnytsky signed a contract with Moscow
- The myth of betrayal : how Ivan Mazepa broke with Peter the Great
- The myth of Crimea : how Catherine the Great took away Cossack freedom
- The myth of language : how Taras Shevchenko battled slavery
- The myth of Lenin : how independent Ukraine emerged
- The myth of prosperity : how Stalin engineered the Holodomor
- The myth of Bandera : how Ukrainians fought in World War II
- Part II: Seven tales of present-day oppression in Ukraine. Unity again : how Soviet Ukraine searched for itself
- Betrayal again : how Leonid Kravchuk destroyed the Soviet Union
- Language again : how Leonid Kuchma saddled the devil and flew to Moscow
- Bandera again : how Putin sowed the seeds of the Orange Revolution
- Prosperity again : how Viktor Yanukovych overcame the Orange Revolution
- Crimea again : how Putin unleashed war on Ukraine
- Lenin again : how Volodymyr Zelensky stopped joking
- Epilogue.
